Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:09:06 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: wes@intele.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU binutils and FreeBSD 2.1.0 Message-ID: <199601230809.JAA15849@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <199601210031.RAA18804@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 20, 96 05:31:53 pm
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hasn't Nate Williams said ? ...
>
> > I tried to build binutils 2.6 today, but I can't get 'ld' to configure
> > correctly for 'i386-unknown-freebsd2.1.0'. Has anyone else built
> > binutils for 2.1? Any hints or helps?
>
> The ld in FreeBSD (and NetBSD) is a heavily hacked old version of GNU
> ld. The current GNU binutils would need *serious* hacking to get the
> same functionality, so the shlib stuff the *BSDs are not supported (and
> probably will never be) in any official version of GNU's binutils.
>
would'nt it be possible to try to fold all these "hacks" back into the FSF
distribution ? - this would make it much easier to keep up to date with the
binutils or build cross-compile environments
t
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